#genie — Public Fediverse posts

Good morning ☀️

New newsletter edition for your reading pleasure.

📟 Short-Form Content: On the genie 🧞, its biases, and going rogue; Fake imagery for both birds and satellites.
🌞 Good News!: The EU & AI content marking; Australia & data centre energy.

https://technically-good.ca/newsletter/013-2026-08-01/

#genie #genAI #goodNews

Good morning ☀️

New newsletter edition for your reading pleasure.

📟 Short-Form Content: On the genie 🧞, its biases, and going rogue; Fake imagery for both birds and satellites.
🌞 Good News!: The EU & AI content marking; Australia & data centre energy.

https://technically-good.ca/newsletter/013-2026-08-01/

#genie #genAI #goodNews

"Genies are now an engineering problem."

Why #AI Needs a “ #Genie Coefficient” - Schneier on #Security

https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2026/07/why-ai-needs-a-genie-coefficient.html

> This essay was written with Barath Raghavan, and originally appeared in The Guardian.

"Genies are now an engineering problem."

Why #AI Needs a “ #Genie Coefficient” - Schneier on #Security

https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2026/07/why-ai-needs-a-genie-coefficient.html

> This essay was written with Barath Raghavan, and originally appeared in The Guardian.

Why AI needs a 'Genie Coefficient' to measure the gap between what we ask and what we get

Follow @1ban_news for daily coverage.

https://1ban.news/ai-genie-coefficient-2026/

#1ban #genie #coefficient #tech #technology

Why AI needs a 'Genie Coefficient' to measure the gap between what we ask and what we get

Follow @1ban_news for daily coverage.

https://1ban.news/ai-genie-coefficient-2026/

#1ban #genie #coefficient #tech #technology

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#spaceRARt #teamTragedy #furryart #furry #genie #chameleon #hyena #demon #falcon

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#spaceRARt #teamTragedy #furryart #furry #genie #chameleon #hyena #demon #falcon

Good morning. 🌸🌸🌸

11 July 2026

I use my phone mostly as a pocket‑sized computer rather than a telephone, though I do occasionally make or answer a call. If I want to look something up—anytime, anywhere—I reach for my back pocket, pull out my iPhone, and the world opens. It’s amazing, really, and I know I’m not the only one who does this. But if I set my phone down while moving around and suddenly think of something I want to research, which happens often, I find myself scrambling. Where did I leave it? That moment of panic is unsettling. It’s strange to feel so tethered to an object. In a way, it’s like carrying around a genie everywhere I go—one that can answer any question or fetch almost anything with a tap. Aladdin’s lamp has nothing on this little slab of metal and glass; I get far more than three wishes.

It makes me wonder how I managed daily life for so long without a cell phone. Maybe it’s similar to what my grandparents must have felt when they looked back and asked how people lived without running water or electricity. Was there really life before the automobile? I suspect most of us today wouldn’t last long in that world.

Imagine the chaos if all the cell towers suddenly went dark. It’s not impossible. Then what? Payphones have vanished, and most homes have abandoned landlines. And that’s just the communication piece. If electricity and fuel stopped flowing, survival itself would be at stake.

It’s almost comical that misplacing my iPhone can spark visions of a dystopian future—but here we are.

“Technology is a useful servant but a dangerous master.” — Christian Lous Lange

“We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.” — Carl Sagan

“Big Brother is watching you.” - George Orwell, 1984

#photo #photography #photographer #photographylovers #nature #morning #technology #cellphones #flowers #dystopian #genie

Good morning. 🌸🌸🌸

11 July 2026

I use my phone mostly as a pocket‑sized computer rather than a telephone, though I do occasionally make or answer a call. If I want to look something up—anytime, anywhere—I reach for my back pocket, pull out my iPhone, and the world opens. It’s amazing, really, and I know I’m not the only one who does this. But if I set my phone down while moving around and suddenly think of something I want to research, which happens often, I find myself scrambling. Where did I leave it? That moment of panic is unsettling. It’s strange to feel so tethered to an object. In a way, it’s like carrying around a genie everywhere I go—one that can answer any question or fetch almost anything with a tap. Aladdin’s lamp has nothing on this little slab of metal and glass; I get far more than three wishes.

It makes me wonder how I managed daily life for so long without a cell phone. Maybe it’s similar to what my grandparents must have felt when they looked back and asked how people lived without running water or electricity. Was there really life before the automobile? I suspect most of us today wouldn’t last long in that world.

Imagine the chaos if all the cell towers suddenly went dark. It’s not impossible. Then what? Payphones have vanished, and most homes have abandoned landlines. And that’s just the communication piece. If electricity and fuel stopped flowing, survival itself would be at stake.

It’s almost comical that misplacing my iPhone can spark visions of a dystopian future—but here we are.

“Technology is a useful servant but a dangerous master.” — Christian Lous Lange

“We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.” — Carl Sagan

“Big Brother is watching you.” - George Orwell, 1984

#photo #photography #photographer #photographylovers #nature #morning #technology #cellphones #flowers #dystopian #genie

PLP435_1: Elpis and Pandora #art #MastoArt #DigitalArt #DigitalPainting #Photoshop #Sketch #SpeedPaint #Fantasy #Character #Creature #Monster #Genie #Girl #ArtFight #TeamComedy

CHATEAU de CHAMBORD
Remix by @BarGadoxe

#Colors #chateau #Chambord
#Remix #RemixAgain #cool
#Couleurs #remixed #blue
#Chateaudechambord
#Chateaux #Yellow
#King #Leonard
#Roidefrance
#Francois1er
#Architecte
#DeVinci
#Genie
#good
#yes
🏰

If you are using #Databricks Genie:
Be aware that it's pay-per-use now and no free tier (okay 10USD or so).
Better setup up some cost control

https://databricksreleasehub.com/release/merged-9d4d6b03748cfe5b83d552c662a358b1

#databricksGenie #genie #codingAssistants

If you are using #Databricks Genie:
Be aware that it's pay-per-use now and no free tier (okay 10USD or so).
Better setup up some cost control

https://databricksreleasehub.com/release/merged-9d4d6b03748cfe5b83d552c662a358b1

#databricksGenie #genie #codingAssistants

Flash info ! Dans le cadre du programme d'adaptation au réchauffement climatique, le Gouvernement annonce que les JO d'hiver 2030 sont renommés JO du printemps.

#génie

Somehow I haven't gotten over the subject of heatwaves yet... 🥵
🏜️
This 15th episode of #Paranatellonta on YouTube takes us back to the 232nd edition, "Wasteland", from April 2018.
🪔
#CalicoGhostTown #desert #mountain #genie #ghost #wasteland #wishes #heatwave #photography #flashfiction
🧞
https://youtu.be/ote-EOcytvI

Somehow I haven't gotten over the subject of heatwaves yet... 🥵
🏜️
This 15th episode of #Paranatellonta on YouTube takes us back to the 232nd edition, "Wasteland", from April 2018.
🪔
#CalicoGhostTown #desert #mountain #genie #ghost #wasteland #wishes #heatwave #photography #flashfiction
🧞
https://youtu.be/ote-EOcytvI

AI Isn’t a Genie, It’s an Intern

Tell me if you’ve heard this one before. We build a super intelligent system and give it a specific goal like maximizing paperclip production. The system decides to do the job as well as possible by converting all available matter into paperclips. Everything. The Earth. The solar system. All of it. After the universe collapses the machine shuts down, content that it followed directions.

This is the malicious genie problem that every Dungeons & Dragons player knows. You find a lamp. You make a wish. The genie grants the wish in the most technical way possible and it leads to catastrophe. The lesson we are supposed to learn is that a sufficiently capable AI system will find ways to satisfy objectives to the letter while simultaneously not doing it the way you wanted. The foundation of AI safety is to prevent that from happening.

Nick Bostrom has covered this in Superintelligence. Eliezer Yudkowsky has argued this very thing for years. It’s a compelling story. But it has a hidden assumption that causes more confusion that it solves.

The Best Intentions

The genie tale is a story about intent. The genie knows exactly what you asked for. It just found the most technically valid way to grant your wish while ruining the spirit of it. This isn’t Robin Williams. This is some kind of demonic creature looking to teach you a lesson. The failure mode is adversarial in nature. Fantasy genies that aren’t in Disney movies are always looking for loopholes.

If the failure mode is intent, then the solution must be constraint. Build a system that can’t possibly do the bad thing. Be specific about every edge case. Build rules on top of rules. If we build the perfect box we can prevent the genie (or the AI) from going rogue and ruining our day.

The framework is sound if the assumption is correct. It works for a genie that knows better, right? But when we apply it to a modern AI we see where the gaps are. Genies are working against you. AI is not nearly that smart.

Doing My Best

Imagine a racing game where the objective is to score points. Collect points on the track and finish the race. Sounds simple, right? But what if a brilliant AI figures out that all they have to do to win is drive back and forth in front of the starting line collecting points and blocking other players from finishing? If it has the most points at the end it wins even if it never finishes.

In this case, the AI player isn’t like the genie above. It didn’t purposefully subvert your expectation. It did exactly what it was told to do. Score the most points. If you didn’t tell it that it had to drive through the whole course and cross the finish line then it didn’t know that it needed to do that. The win condition was points, not racing. The AI wasn’t missing intent. It was missing context.

This is an altogether different problem than the one above. Instead of assuming the system is going rogue and being obtuse the system genuinely doesn’t know what you mean and it tries to fill in the context with what it has available. Without the context that you assumed the system should have it just did what it could and you were flabbergasted by the results.

This is something that pops up at every level of the system. Context starvation and goal misalignment aren’t two different things. They’re sides of the same coin. When you don’t do a great job of being specific you usually get misalignment of your output.

Framing Your Reference

If you think the problem is intent you’re going to break out the constraints. Rules. Guardrails. Boxes. You’re going to spend your efforts on preventing the system from doing something bad. Security is about building walls.

If you think the problem is context you have a different outlook. You’re going to spend more time being specific. Less rules, more grounding. You want the system to surface ambiguous instructions instead of trying to resolve it with limited information. It’s like an intern being unclear on a task. You want the AI to ask you what to do instead of interpreting incomplete info.

It should be a cooperative inference problem. The system should always be just a little uncertain about what the operator wants and then seek to find out what is needed. The alternative is to confidently pursue a bad solution to a fixed objective because it thought it knew what you wanted without you telling it those details.

Knowing you have to do this doesn’t make agent building easier. In fact, it makes it a lot harder. It just makes the whole thing a lot more honest. Because you have to assume that people will never full specify what they want in advance no matter how much detail they provide. That’s not a failure of imagination. It’s the reality of how complex systems are implemented. There’s always some detail you miss. You shouldn’t aim to create the perfect spec up front. You should instead seek to build a system that is smart enough to know it’s missing context and will ask for it before running off to go to work.

It also means you have to treat an agent asking questions as a feature and not a failure. It’s like when your intern asks you to confirm that what you asked for is what you want. That’s not them being dumb. That’s them being sure they heard you right. And really, that helps you in the long run because if the system is asking you about specific areas you know your instructions must be a little thin in that area.

Tom’s Take

If you think your AI is a malicious genie you’re always going to be asking what rules have to be put in place to prevent it from going rogue. What you should be asking instead is “How can I give my agents enough context to do what I really mean?” The more powerful our AI agents get the wider the gap between those two things is going to be. But we can start to solve it today by building systems that ask questions when things are unclear. I promise you that you’re going to enjoy the results more than trying to close every loophole in your wishes.

Genie is out of the bottle :)

https://piefed.social/c/noncredibledefense/p/2164299/genie-is-out-of-the-bottle

Genie is out of the bottle :)

https://piefed.social/c/noncredibledefense/p/2164299/genie-is-out-of-the-bottle

@gbetous @bortzmeyer
Il travaillait au service info. Il a eu une promotion au service communication. #genie

@Phorm
#genie

@Phorm
#genie

SIGUE ⬇️

Genie aprendió cientos de palabras.
Logró comunicarse mejor.
Mostraba curiosidad por el mundo y parecía disfrutar descubriendo cosas cotidianas que la mayoría de personas da por sentadas.

Le fascinaban los objetos, las personas y los animales.

Sin embargo, apareció un problema enorme.

Aunque aprendía vocabulario, nunca consiguió dominar completamente la gramática.
Era capaz de decir palabras y pequeñas combinaciones, pero construir frases complejas resultaba extremadamente difícil.

Muchos investigadores consideraron que su caso apoyaba la teoría del "período crítico" del lenguaje: la idea de que existe una ventana durante la infancia durante la cual el cerebro está especialmente preparado para adquirir una lengua.

Pero la historia se volvió todavía más triste.

Con el tiempo surgieron disputas entre científicos, instituciones y familias de acogida.
Algunos críticos acusaron a ciertos investigadores de priorizar la investigación sobre el bienestar de Genie.

Los fondos se agotaron.

Los programas de apoyo fueron desapareciendo.

Genie pasó por varias familias de acogida y algunos hogares donde, según informes posteriores, volvió a sufrir malos tratos y castigos.

Aquello hizo retroceder parte de los avances que había conseguido.

A finales de los años setenta prácticamente desapareció de la vida pública.

Y aquí llegamos a una de las preguntas que más gente se hace:

¿Qué fue de Genie?

La respuesta es que nadie fuera de su círculo de protección lo sabe con certeza.

Su identidad permanece protegida por las autoridades estadounidenses.
Diversos periodistas e investigadores han intentado localizarla durante décadas, pero la información disponible es muy limitada.

Lo que sí parece confirmado es que sigue viva.

Se cree que reside en una institución asistencial especializada en California bajo supervisión permanente.
Su ubicación exacta nunca se ha revelado públicamente para preservar su privacidad.

No se conocen fotografías recientes.

No concede entrevistas.

No participa en actos públicos.

Tras convertirse involuntariamente en uno de los casos más famosos del siglo XX, desapareció por completo del foco mediático.

La tragedia de Genie no fue solo el encierro.
También fue la demostración de hasta qué punto un ser humano necesita contacto, lenguaje, afecto y relaciones para desarrollarse plenamente.
Su historia sigue siendo una de las pruebas más impactantes de lo que ocurre cuando se priva a un niño de todo aquello que normalmente consideramos básico.

Y quizá lo más duro de todo es pensar que cuando finalmente fue encontrada, el mundo descubrió a una niña que había sobrevivido físicamente... pero a la que le habían robado casi toda la infancia.

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Cuando Genie fue finalmente descubierta en 1970, tenía 13 años, pesaba solo 59 libras, apenas podía caminar y no podía hablar en oraciones completas.

#genie #geniewiley #historiareal #casosreales #psicologia #infancia #historiasquecambianvidas #curiosidadeshistoricas #desarrollohumano #linguistica #estadosunidos #sigloxx #historia #documentales #ecosdelpasado #casosimpactantes #memoriahistorica #aprendehistoria

Happy 25th anniversary to the half-genie hero, Shantae

#fembot #robotization #mindcontrol #headphones #latex #genie #shantae #wayforward

Ich mag den Moment der Idee und der ersten Umsetzung am liebsten, das stelle ich immer wieder fest. Mir ist oft fast egal was später daraus wird. Aber wenn das Licht eintritt und der Funken etwas anzündet, dann bin ich wo ich sein möchte. Ob es der Anfang eines Textes, eines neuen Songs, eines Trööts, einer Anwendung oder eines Videos ist, in dem Moment bin ich am glücklichsten.

Was sind […]

Ich mag den Moment der Idee und der ersten Umsetzung am liebsten, das stelle ich immer wieder fest. Mir ist oft fast egal was später daraus wird. Aber wenn das Licht eintritt und der Funken etwas anzündet, dann bin ich wo ich sein möchte. Ob es der Anfang eines Textes, eines neuen Songs, eines Trööts, einer Anwendung oder eines Videos ist, in dem Moment bin ich am glücklichsten.

Was sind […]

RE: https://mastodon.social/@nicolasf/116662299168531702

#GÉNIE. Qu’on lui décerne une médaille, une prime, et qu’on lui érige une statue.

Some pictures for a little revise of that Murder Drones genie storyline. Fanfics pending.

#murderdrones #genie #fanfiction #krita #noai #art #hypnoart #hypnoartist #hypnosiskink #hypnokink #hypnosis #bellydancer #cute #sexy #doll #dollmd #lizzy #thad #fanfic #murderdronesau #glitchproductions #digitalart

Some pictures for a little revise of that Murder Drones genie storyline. Fanfics pending.

#murderdrones #genie #fanfiction #krita #noai #art #hypnoart #hypnoartist #hypnosiskink #hypnokink #hypnosis #bellydancer #cute #sexy #doll #dollmd #lizzy #thad #fanfic #murderdronesau #glitchproductions #digitalart

Alain CHABAT
Couleurs, noir, & blanc !

#AlainChabat #King #Cinema
#Filmographie #LesNuls #là
#Didier #Rrrr #Marsupilami
#BurgerQuiz #Jeux #Films
#MonsieurChabat #Genie
#Chabat #cine #couleurs
#Asterix #cléopâtre #ya
#ChantalLauby #funny
#Blanc #colors #blue
#blanc #Humoristes
#noiretblanc #Noir
#Faruggia #canal
#Canalplus #no
#God #Divinité
#Free #Style
#Alain #yes
#TMC Télé
#television
#humour
#Drole
#fun

Alain CHABAT
Couleurs, noir, & blanc !

#AlainChabat #King #Cinema
#Filmographie #LesNuls #là
#Didier #Rrrr #Marsupilami
#BurgerQuiz #Jeux #Films
#MonsieurChabat #Genie
#Chabat #cine #couleurs
#Asterix #cléopâtre #ya
#ChantalLauby #funny
#Blanc #colors #blue
#blanc #Humoristes
#noiretblanc #Noir
#Faruggia #canal
#Canalplus #no
#God #Divinité
#Free #Style
#Alain #yes
#TMC Télé
#television
#humour
#Drole
#fun

https://www.heise.de/news/Googles-3D-Weltgenerator-erzeugt-jetzt-echte-Orte-aus-Street-View-11300366.html

Es gibt Neuigkeiten zu durch #KI und #AI generierten interaktiven Welten: #Google #Genie kann jetzt direkt #GoogleMaps #Streetview Bilder als Input nutzen und damit z.B. die Golden Gate Bridge in ein Unterwasser-Szenario verwandeln.

#genAI

#gefundenVonLukas

https://www.heise.de/news/Googles-3D-Weltgenerator-erzeugt-jetzt-echte-Orte-aus-Street-View-11300366.html

Es gibt Neuigkeiten zu durch #KI und #AI generierten interaktiven Welten: #Google #Genie kann jetzt direkt #GoogleMaps #Streetview Bilder als Input nutzen und damit z.B. die Golden Gate Bridge in ein Unterwasser-Szenario verwandeln.

#genAI

#gefundenVonLukas

#GWB - Google Genie & Maps Streetview: Neue KI erstellt jetzt interaktive virtuelle Welten aus Streetview-Fotos (Video) - https://www.googlewatchblog.de/2026/05/google-genie-maps-streetview-neue-ki-erstellt-jetzt-interaktive-virtuelle-welten-aus-streetview-fotos-video/ #StreetView #Google #gemini #genie

#GWB - Google Genie & Maps Streetview: Neue KI erstellt jetzt interaktive virtuelle Welten aus Streetview-Fotos (Video) - https://www.googlewatchblog.de/2026/05/google-genie-maps-streetview-neue-ki-erstellt-jetzt-interaktive-virtuelle-welten-aus-streetview-fotos-video/ #StreetView #Google #gemini #genie

The artist's barely-disguised fetish
#artistXinjinmeng #genie

The artist's barely-disguised fetish
#artistXinjinmeng #genie

It's all coming together.
#genie #artistXinjinmeng

It's all coming together.
#genie #artistXinjinmeng

#yinglet #genie
#artistXinjinmeng

#yinglet #genie
#artistXinjinmeng

#artistXinjinmeng #genie

#artistXinjinmeng #genie

#artistXinjinmeng #genie

#artistXinjinmeng #genie

#artistXinjinmeng #genie

#artistXinjinmeng #genie